Can you say something about the hardware on a gfx card that makes it optimized for mining vs that for video rendering vs gaming? What are the overlaps, i.e. is what makes a card strong for mining the same as for rendering but a gaming card can be optimized separately in 'x' way?

I use AMD cards for Final Cut and I will be milking my 2x 7970's as long as the prices for 580's and Vega's remain so high.

As for performance - it is various GPU shader units stuff.
Nvidia already do various stuff, like specially disabling parts of video encoders and allow only 2 streams for all consumer cards. And all such.

"As for performance - it is various GPU shader units stuff.
Nvidia already do various stuff, like specially disabling parts of video encoders and allow only 2 streams for all consumer cards. And all such."

Can you please explain this a little more @Vitaliy_Kiselev in particular regarding video editing, thanks

All NVidia consumer GPUs have 2 streams restriction for NVENC (hardware encoders). It is special artificial thing, allowing to make Nvidia big number of millions our of thin air, as companies buy expensive cards instead.

Same is true for >8bit color. Some bios changes and also some laser magic on die setting proper switches for pro cards.

According to the latest leaks, rumors and information provided to wccftech the GeForce GTX 1180 is powered by a 104 class GPU, codenamed GT104. The GPU measures around ~400mm², features 3584 CUDA cores, a 256-bit GDDR6 memory interface and 8 to 16 gigabytes of 16Gbps GDDR6 memory. The graphics card is expected to have a core clock of around ~1.6GHz and a boost clock of around ~1.8GHz. The TDP of this graphics card is unconfirmed to date, but is expected to be somewhere between 170-200W.

In terms of pricing, whispers say that NVIDIA is looking to charge more for the GTX 1180 as compared to the GTX 1080, with some sources quoted as saying to expect a price tag of around $699.

I could really use some of those rumored 16GB cards... Windows 10's horrible VRAM issue (holding 20% hostage for some insane reason) is concerning for those into rendering CGI/VFX with Octane or other GPU engines. I'm only getting 8.5GB available with a 1080Ti card... so stupid. Microsoft won't even acknowledge this problem even exists, of course.

Yea, I'm Thinking of downgrading... but the stability (in general) of the apps I use, especially C4D and it's plug-ins, seems to be better in Windows 10 (others report this as well)... so it's a tough call. Stability or VRAM. The 16GB cards... even with only 13-14GB available would be enough for the foreseable future though...